Business Operations Product Delivery Manager Payments Vice President

The role supports a senior Executive by driving strategic clarity operational discipline financial rigor and cross-organizational alignment. This position blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution to shape priorities enable faster decision-making and ensure follow-through on high-impact commitments. The ideal candidate brings executive presence structured problem-solving and strong judgment to operate independently on complex ambiguous and sensitive topics.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with the Executive to shape articulate and maintain multi-year strategy annual operating plans and priority roadmaps
• Develop decision materials that frame issues options trade-offs and recommendations to enable clear executive choices
• Lead scenario planning and structured problem solving on strategic and operating questions
• Own development of high-stakes executive communications including leadership decks pre-reads and written briefs
• Ensure consistency of messaging and narrative quality across leadership communications and key forums
• Coordinate budgeting forecasting and financial performance tracking in partnership with Finance and functional stakeholders
• Monitor spend headcount and investment priorities against plan; surface variances and implications with recommended actions
• Establish and maintain executive operating cadence (weekly monthly quarterly) including agendas outcomes and action tracking
• Track delivery of top priorities; proactively surface risks dependencies and execution bottlenecks and drive closure
• Support organization design operating model evolution and talent-related deliverables in close partnership with HR
• Drive cross-functional alignment across peer leaders; prepare stakeholder briefs and negotiation materials to resolve competing priorities
  

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• 5 years of experience in strategy operations finance transformation product delivery or adjacent roles with enterprise scope
• Demonstrated experience operating close to senior leadership and influencing outcomes through structured analysis and crisp communication
• Strong strategic and analytical skills including the ability to synthesize ambiguous inputs into clear priorities and decisions
• Exceptional executive-level writing and visual communication skills including strong PowerPoint and Excel proficiency
• Financial acumen across budgeting forecasting spend/headcount tracking and contract/SOW or vendor approval processes
• Proven ability to establish operating rhythms manage dependencies and drive accountability without formal authority
• High judgment discretion and comfort handling sensitive topics with confidentiality and professionalism
• Ability to operate independently with minimal direction and deliver high-quality outputs under tight timelines
• Strong stakeholder management skills across functions such as Finance Procurement Legal Risk and HR
• Track record of identifying risks early and translating insights into practical action plans
  

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Prior experience in an executive office strategy or business management role supporting VP/ED/MD-level leaders
• Consulting or internal advisory background with demonstrated delivery and change execution experience
• Experience developing annual operating plans prioritization frameworks and executive dashboards (RAG dependency maps action trackers)
• Familiarity with enterprise governance and controls related to financial stewardship and third-party/vendor engagement
• Comfort leveraging Copilot and AI-enabled productivity tools to accelerate drafting analysis and synthesis
• Experience leading special projects that require rapid diagnosis stakeholder alignment and measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to move seamlessly between strategy formulation and hands-on execution across multiple workstreams